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Thread (Discussion): [Daily Southtown] Outside expert rips state's sex offender treatment center
Message 120806
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Posted by admin
on Oct 31, 2003 07:27 PM | Also by admin
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Discuss the article Outside expert rips state's sex offender treatment center, which appeared on Daily Southtown on October 31, 2003.
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Message 120822 (In Reply to Message 120806)
Posted by Silverthorne
on Nov 01, 2003 01:13 AM | Also by Silverthorne
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Fred Berlin is about the most recognized expert on sexual offenders in the country. If he said the program was a joke and like a prison it was.
Most of these states are using these "hospitals" as holding pens for people they dont want to let out. Like it or not its just a prison.
There was an article in the paper here last year about the Arizona hospital. "Patients" get one hour a week of individual therapy and two hours a week of group. Thats three hours a week - in a "hospital" of therapy.
I'm sure the Illiniois program is very similar.
Its sad they sealed the report. I'd really like to see what one of the true "experts" in the field has to say about it.
Silverthorne
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Message 120835 (In Reply to Message 120806)
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on Nov 01, 2003 07:57 AM | Also by lj
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"U.S. District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber sealed the report Oct. 21 after attorneys for the state told him its disclosure would be harmful to the effectiveness of treatment at the center. They said reading the report might cause patients to refuse treatment."
It's ironic that the "patients" are expected to be totally honest in their treatment but the court seals information that might prove harmful to the effectiveness of their treatment and of which also might cause them to refuse treatment. In this situation, who is being more honest in the long run--the offender or the court?
If the blind lead the blind, they both fall into a ditch!
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120806, admin, Oct 31, 2003 07:27 PM [Introduction]
120822, Silverthorne, Nov 01, 2003 01:13 AM
120835, lj, Nov 01, 2003 07:57 AM
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